Monday, June 23, 2008

UPDATED: a more recent version of Cygwin/X breaks the procedure below, for a more up to date procedure go here I'm only leaving this post here for people to read the comments below it which may help someone. And now you get a blinking link, because people felt like they should still leave comments here ... years after the new post on this subject. Well, comments have been turned off for this post.

mrxvt is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator that does not depend on various toolkits in Gnome or KDE. And even though the download page of the materm wiki says "Cygwin - currently not available" ... You can get mrxvt up and running under Cygwin as follows:

UPDATED: a more recent version of Cygwin/X breaks the procedure below, for a more up to date procedure go here This post remains here mainly for the comments below.

1) Download the latest stable version of mrxvt from here to the root directory of the c: drive.2) In a cygwin bash shell do the following:

I have that package and more: xorg-x11-base, xorg-x11-bin, xorg-x11-bin-dlls, xorg-x11-bin-lndir, xorg-x11-devel, xorg-x11-etc, xorg-x11-libs-data, xorg-x11-xwin, plus most of the font-related packages.

rxvt:VT102 terminal emulator for both X and Windows (20050409-7)rxvt-unicode-common: An improved version of rxvt requiring an Xserver (7.7-6)rxvt-unicode-X: An improved version of rxvt requiring an Xserver (7.7-6)

never mind...got it going. just required reinstalling a heap of the packages. something interesting to note is you can edit the startxwin.bat file in C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin to open the tabbed terminal from one windows shortcut. replace the line "%RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l" with:

I got the same problem "configure: error: Mrxvt requires the X Window" and I fixed it with the following steps:- I installed xorg-x11-devel (available when you click obsolete packages)- $ ./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/ --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib